Example sentences of "had [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 And had the latter been the case , Churchill , almost his only substantial political ally of 1936 , would in 1940 have been confronted with a very awkward decision as to whether to intern his sovereign .
2 Far example , madam , my life ; my life , madam is a perpetual stream of pleasure , that glides through such a variety of entertainments , I believe the wisest of our ancestors never had the least conception of any of 'em .
3 The biggest landowners , who could best afford to erect new dwellings with a reasonable standard of construction and sanitation , had the least incentive to do so — indeed , as the principal local ratepayers they might easily penalize themselves by attracting workers who could later apply for poor relief .
4 As for Mr. Williams , he never had the least encouragement from me .
5 I never had the least interest in games .
6 The children with whom I worked had the least opportunity in terms of personal development and careers , and they were likely to be drawn into a variety of different forms of behaviour , among which the first was often the use of and then addiction to tobacco .
7 A special form of coloured route marker had to be developed and approved and it was in this field , as with TRE , that Bennett had the least of his problems .
8 Well who , who noticed that you had the least Brummie accent ?
9 Before the NHS was established , critics had noted that the ‘ inverse care law ’ seemed to apply : those regions in which the need for health care was the greatest had the fewest resources .
10 She had the few pounds from her wages ( and thank heaven she had not thrown it back in the vicar 's face ) .
11 He had the most stars on his books , he had the most friends and he gave the most renowned New York parties .
12 He had the most stars on his books , he had the most friends and he gave the most renowned New York parties .
13 And it had the most money of its own to spend on the election campaign , though unlike many of the other parties it got no western aid .
14 She and Elspeth had the most books of any girls in the street .
15 Many thatched cottages were built on the brow of a hill overlooking the sea ; and a large potato-field , divided into elongated sections , gave ample scope for many Lewis families to prove that union is strength , for they were busily engaged lifting the crop : each family group was complete in itself ; those who had the most children got most quickly over the ground : many hands make light work , and young backs bend easily .
16 Clarke said Chelmsford would be approaching the tournament as one of the favourites , but much depended on who prepared the best , had the most luck and stayed free of injuries .
17 The latter group had the most difficulties and the greatest number of demands from the children .
18 They started to fight about who had the most crayons and mother tried to intervene and tell them both off for making a noise .
19 That part of the image which had the most resonance both with elderly workers and their employers was that of ‘ retirement impact ’ — that is , of the physical and mental ill effects assumed to be associated with retirement .
20 In a sprint for second place at the finish it was the German pair who had the most power left .
21 The youngest dead had the most flowers ,
22 The panel of judges was selected from leading retailers , briefed to select the winner as the range of carpets which had the most originality and innovation with outstanding sales potential .
23 We 've got a lot of different opinions there , I mean from my personal experience when I was a customer sales manager my , my students or particularly some of them , well I would say the brightest kind of people in the branch , and they had the most attention , and it 's very easy I think to write them off .
24 ‘ Not everyone had the same pudding , ’ said the inspector with a certain tenacity .
25 ‘ It was always planned he would come back on the bus , but when the usual head count was made for the return journey we , of course , had the same number as when we started out — without Kenny . ’
26 Wolfgang Rosch , the deputy commander of the Leipzig worker 's militia , which had been out in force during recent demonstrations , admitted that members ‘ had the same concerns as the people who were on the streets ’ .
27 So the situationally justified actions of the constables had the same effect as the rules of the formal bureaucracy , although this outcome was reproduced in informal and symbolic ways ( on the notion of bureaucracy as symbol see Jacobs 1969 ; for other examples of ethnomethodological and phenomenological accounts of organization and rule-following see Bittner 1965 ; Johnson 1972 ; Manning 1982 ; Zimmerman 1970 , 1971 ) .
28 They had the same right wing , racist hard-nut minds .
29 She had the same kind of eyes , a real pinned kind of look .
30 But , at that time , none of us had seen Hell in person We 'd seen a picture of The Heartbreakers that Malcolm had brought back from New York — the one in which it was meant to look like they 'd been shot in the heart but in fact looked like they d all had the same accident with a ketchup bottle .
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